Author: Alexandru Popescu

Spending on AI is forecast to skyrocket to $2.5 trillion by 2026, surpassing even the largest science and infrastructure projects. Over the past decade, AI has attracted one of the largest waves of private investment in modern history, totaling trillions of dollars, Al Jazeera writes. According to Gartner, a US-based business and technology analyst firm, worldwide spending on AI is forecast to total $2.5 trillion in 2026, an increase of $44% from 2025. Over the past decade, AI-related investments have grown by nearly...

The Competition Council is submitting to public debate the proposed commitments submitted by Delivery Solutions S.A. (Sameday) to remove the competition concerns identified in the context of the takeover of Cargus S.R.L. and its subsidiary EOPS Solutions SRL, according to a CC press release. “Sameday is owned by Dante International S.A. , the company that operates eMAG. Cargus is owned by Celero Investments S.à.r.l., a company controlled by private equity investor Mid Europa. The commitments proposed by Sameday aim, among other things, at improving the quality of the services offered to customers as well as at maintaining a proper competitive environment in the courier market. Thus, the company undertakes to maintain by the end of the year...

Romania has one of the highest tariffs for fast-charging electric cars in Europe, at 0.43 euro/kWh, at the same level as Austria and almost double that of Spain or Croatia, although the wholesale price of energy is not the highest in the EU, according to an analysis signed by the president of the Intelligent Energy Association (AEI), Dumitru Chisăliță. According to the source cited by Agerpres, the difference is explained by the lack of competition in the ultra-rapid stations segment and by the commercial strategy of operators who treat Romania as a transit market, with low volume and low bargaining power. „The fact that Romania appears in the Tesla app with...

The Waste Land Radar, which will also include effective controls, could be launched by the middle of this year, Environment, Water and Forests Minister Diana Buzoianu announced at a press conference on Friday. „We are in quite advanced discussions and, if I am not mistaken, the public specifications have been submitted in order to add some functions to the Landfill Radar, because the last administration a few months ago made a Landfill Radar from which it took out a lot of control criteria. It was a very nice register with all the ballast plants in Romania, but it had lost all the...

Romanian investors are beginning to recalibrate their portfolios in 2026, reducing exposure focused on the US technology sector and shifting towards sectors considered more stable, such as energy, industrials and commodities, according to an analysis by Investimental. The company sees a growing interest in real-economy-linked instruments and geographic diversification across the Nova platform amid high volatility and uncertainty over US inflation and interest rate developments. After two years dominated by the performance of Big Tech and the excitement around Artificial Intelligence, the beginning of 2026 globally marks a visible rotation of capital towards traditional sectors...

Business leaders in Romania face high risks but are the most optimistic in CEE about the resilience of their businesses: almost half (47%) see government regulations or policy changes as the main threat to their business in 2026, but all (100%) say they are confident in their organization's ability to adapt, a new Grayling report shows. Profound transformations in technology and artificial intelligence are perceived as major challenges: 13% of leaders see AI or technological change as the biggest risk to their business, and more than half (53%) see it as...

According to the draft, for consumption in the period from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, the final price invoiced by natural gas suppliers to household customers and heat producers, only for the quantity of natural gas used to produce heat in cogeneration plants and thermal power plants for household consumption, is established by each supplier as the sum of four components, namely the purchase component (established by a new formula included in the ordinance), the supply component (15 lei/MWh), the components represented by the regulated tariffs/established according to the regulations of the National Energy Regulatory Authority and the components represented by VAT and excise duties....

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania (NBR), Mugur Isărescu, believes that joining the OECD is Romania's most important reform program, but said that ”no one presents it”. He said that all the reforms are being discussed and everyone says something else, but if we join the OECD, it means that we have made a major reform program in the country, according to News.ro. Mugur Isărescu was asked at a press conference on Wednesday whether there is money in Romania's budget for the economic recovery package, as well as for the social package. ”I confess to you that I have read like this, but not very in depth the program of...

After a difficult economic year, which raised problems in most business sectors, Veltol Holding - the Romanian technology company specialized in both renewable energy, storage systems, intelligent energy management solutions (EMS) and building management systems (BMS) & automation - doubled its turnover in 2025 compared to the previous year and is targeting investments of over €3 million for 2026. Veltol Holding ended 2025 with a turnover of over 59.3 mil RON 59.3 (about €12m), up by more than 135% compared to 2024. This evolution...

BT Asset Management SAI (BTAM) reached 450,000 investors and reached the historic milestone of RON 10 billion in assets under management, equivalent to approximately EUR 2 billion. Nearly 401TPTP3T of the total transactions realized by BTAM's clients concerned the fund replicating the structure of the ROTX index of the Bucharest Stock Exchange, confirming the growing appetite for investments correlated to the local capital market. In 2025, almost 601TPTP3T of the people in Romania who took their first step into fund investing chose funds managed by BTAM. The community has grown significantly: the number of investors in BTAM funds is...